66 Charlotte Road

This project bears many similarities with the architect's Chance Street scheme, a short walk away. The site is bigger, but the plot is still bounded on three sides by other buildings. So, once again light and natural ventilation could only come from the street frontage. In Chance Street three houses were created in a terrace: here three uses are arranged vertically. The ground floor and basement are given to retail, which has its own entrance on the south side of the plan. The first floor is one open space, designated as a self-contained live/work unit. This has a separate entrance on the north side of the plan, which it shares with a duplex flat on the second and third floors. Here Taylor uses a light well to bring light to the rear of the second floor. The same brick used for the frontage as Chance Street is used, but here there are subtle asymmetries played out in what, at first sight, appears to be a regular elevation. Brass doors and screens also make a re-appearance.